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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820072903321

Autore

Stancliff Michael

Titolo

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper : African American reform rhetoric and the rise of a modern nation state / / Michael Stancliff

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Routledge, 2010

ISBN

1-136-94706-X

1-136-94707-8

1-282-88633-9

9786612886331

0-203-84825-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (221 p.)

Collana

Studies in American popular history and culture

Disciplina

811.3

Soggetti

Authors, American - 19th century

Women authors, American - 19th century

African American authors - 19th century

Women abolitionists - United States

African American abolitionists

Black nationalism - United States

African American social reformers

Women social reformers - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Frances Harper and Nineteenth-Century African American Rhetorical Pedagogy; 1 Composing Character: Cultural Sources of African American Rhetorical Pedagogy; 2 Reconstruction and Black Republican Pedagogy; 3 Temperance Pedagogy: Lessons of Character in a Drunken Economy; 4 Black Ireland: The Political Economics of African American Rhetorical Pedagogy after Reconstruction; 5 Not as a Mere Dependent: The Historic Mission of African American Women's Rhetoric at the End of the Century; Afterword

Appendix: A Selected Chronology of Writing and Oratory by Frances



Ellen Watkins HarperNotes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A prominent early feminist, abolitionist, and civil rights advocate, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper wrote and spoke across genres and reform platforms during the turbulent second half of the nineteenth century. Her invention of a new commonplace language of moral character drew on the persuasive and didactic motifs of the previous decades of African-American reform politics, but far exceeded her predecessors in crafting lessons of rhetoric for women. Focusing on the way in which Harper brought her readers a critical training for the rhetorical action of a life commitment to social reform, thi